Associate director vs associate vice president

The differences between associate directors and associate vice presidents can be seen in a few details. Each job has different responsibilities and duties. Additionally, an associate vice president has an average salary of $137,944, which is higher than the $114,223 average annual salary of an associate director.

The top three skills for an associate director include patients, healthcare and project management. The most important skills for an associate vice president are healthcare, oversight, and portfolio.

Associate director vs associate vice president overview

	Associate Director	Associate Vice President
Yearly salary	$114,223	$137,944
Hourly rate	$54.91	$66.32
Growth rate	8%	6%
Number of jobs	72,370	68,260
Job satisfaction	5	-
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 66%	Bachelor's Degree, 69%
Average age	47	47
Years of experience	-	-

What does an associate director do?

An associate director oversees the daily activities and business operations within a particular area. They are primarily responsible for devising strategies that aim for growth in profit and customer satisfaction, implementing policies and standards, evaluate the workforce, providing support to various departments, and setting goals in terms of budget and sales. Furthermore, they must regularly report progress to the director and coordinate with managers and supervisors in the joint effort to reach the vision and mission of the company.

What does an associate vice president do?

An associate vice president's role is to implement the company's policies and regulations, all while overseeing the business operations within a particular area. Typically responding to a president or stakeholders, an associate vice president's responsibilities revolve around supervising management officials, devising strategies to boost sales and public brand awareness, liaise with external key suppliers and agencies, and craft new policies when necessary. Furthermore, an associate vice president must promptly respond to issues and concerns and develop a budget for the company.

Associate director vs associate vice president salary

Associate directors and associate vice presidents have different pay scales, as shown below.

	Associate Director	Associate Vice President
Average salary	$114,223	$137,944
Salary range	Between $79,000 And $164,000	Between $97,000 And $194,000
Highest paying City	South San Francisco, CA	Rohnert Park, CA
Highest paying state	New Jersey	Rhode Island
Best paying company	Legalmatch.com	Arkansas State University, Mountain Home
Best paying industry	Pharmaceutical	Retail

Differences between associate director and associate vice president education

There are a few differences between an associate director and an associate vice president in terms of educational background:

	Associate Director	Associate Vice President
Most common degree	Bachelor's Degree, 66%	Bachelor's Degree, 69%
Most common major	Business	Business
Most common college	University of Pennsylvania	University of Pennsylvania

Associate director vs associate vice president demographics

Here are the differences between associate directors' and associate vice presidents' demographics:

	Associate Director	Associate Vice President
Average age	47	47
Gender ratio	Male, 52.0% Female, 48.0%	Male, 62.5% Female, 37.5%
Race ratio	Black or African American, 7.5% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 12.6% Asian, 8.9% White, 65.5% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.7%	Black or African American, 7.5% Unknown, 4.7% Hispanic or Latino, 12.5% Asian, 8.8% White, 65.8% American Indian and Alaska Native, 0.7%
LGBT Percentage	10%	10%

Differences between associate director and associate vice president duties and responsibilities

Associate director example responsibilities.

Lead implementation of OPPE and FPPE for TJC.
Manage accounting, weekly reports, local contacts, and maintenance of sets, props, and costumes.
Manage all aspects of music ministry - including arranging all music for schedule services special programs and events.
Manage departmental training schedules, work schedules and CPSI electronic medical record (EMR), certifications and competencies.
Manage web development and rebranding initiative.
Create a coordinate university social media committee quadrupling engagement during campaigns and achieving a national twitter trend during commencement.

Associate vice president example responsibilities.

Leverage in-depth cloud manage service skills, rapid cloud deployment capabilities and DevOps strengths to optimize technical delivery.
Manage yearly close process and external audit, financial statement preparation and in-house payroll processing.
Manage departmental internal and client SharePoint sites, leading to improve communication, document access and process information.
Include forecasting sales, managing expense levels, project portfolio forecasting and oversight, and broker-dealer financial statement preparation.
Develop strategy for outsourcing legacy merchandising system support to manage costs and position team for new ERP system implementation.
Lead all activities including application development, technical infrastructure and vendor management for the deployment of distance education program.

Associate director vs associate vice president skills

Common associate director skills

Patients, 11%
Healthcare, 8%
Project Management, 6%
Oversight, 6%
Portfolio, 6%
Excellent Interpersonal, 5%

Common associate vice president skills

Healthcare, 7%
Oversight, 7%
Portfolio, 6%
AVP, 6%
Excellent Interpersonal, 5%
Project Management, 5%

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Updated January 8, 2025

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